Is there a way we can make these consistent somehow? Maybe move
document.documentURI to Web Applications 1.0? With createHTMLDocument() I
get these results:
document.URL document.documentURI
Gecko "about:blank" "about:blank"
Chrome "" null
Opera script document URL null
Safari "" null
Only Opera seems to conform here for document.URL which I think means the
specification should change. I kind of prefer what Gecko is doing here.
Not having the strange null-ability of attributes that take URLs and
simply (with apologies to hsivonen) use about:blank.
I also found that both Opera and Gecko throw for setting
document.documentURI. Maybe we should take that opportunity and make it
readonly (or nuke it entirely, if that is feasible).
For DOM Core this is http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13045
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Anne van Kesteren
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